Citrus in Tucson

In the 1920's much of the agricultural land in the United States was documented to be depleted of most essential minerals and other nutrients. This problem was described in Senate document number 264 of the 74th congress, second session, 1936, which states:

 “Do you know that most of us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies which cannot be remedied until the depleted soils from which our foods come are brought into proper mineral balance? The alarming fact is that foods--fruits and vegetables and grains--now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contains enough of certain needed minerals, are starving us--no matter how much of them we eat!”

You can read more of this 1936 document at:

http://www.anaturalway.com/Senate_Document_264.html

I think that the following shows what can happen when these minerals are replaced in the soil.

In mid October I applied Sea-Crop to three citrus trees around my home in Tucson, Arizona. I used 6-8 oz of Sea-Crop per tree. I used 8 oz in 5 gallons of water on the frozen lemon tree.

I had to pick two of the big navel oranges from the tree, which were not really ripe yet, for these photo shots. Some of the navel oranges, were bigger than normal and other's were even, bigger. A few were normal sized.

The center orange is about the size of a typical supermarket orange at 3 1/8 inches in diameter.
The orange on the right is 4 5/8" wide by 4 1/4" high or about 4 1/2" in average diameter.
The orange on the left is 4 15/16" wide by 4 5/8" high or about 4 3/4" in average diameter.
This picture was taken on March 24, 2008.


This orange is is 5 5/16" wide by 4 13/16" high or about 5 1/16" in average diameter.
This picture was taken on March 24, 2008.


Some large oranges have unusually thick skin. These oranges have skins of normal thickness.
This picture was taken on March 24, 2008.

Now, remember, I only used Sea-Crop in mid October and all my tree's got hit pretty hard by the cold this winter. I was surprised I even got any oranges this year. Also, keep in mind, I had covered all my orange trees and used heat lamps for 3 solid months. Our last freeze was on February 6 and we had temperatures down to 26 degrees in December. There were six killer frosts in Tucson between December 15 and February 6.

I did not cover or heat the lemon tree this year. So, even though I put some Sea-Crop on my lemon tree as well, I did not expect much since I thought it froze to death before I got around to covering it before the first freeze in December.  So, I said "Ok Sea-Crop now show me your "magic"!!!!! To my amazement, it withstood 3 months of on and off freezing temperatures this winter. All winter our nightly news weather channel was telling people to cover their tree's and bushes, because of the severe frosts we were having.

Well, first it took about two weeks after the last frost before I saw the lemon tree start greening up; and I mean dark-dark leaves. After about a month it was so full of leaves and new shoots that I really did not even recognize the lemon tree (meaning, it never looked that good- even before it got frozen). My husband even remarked that he had never seen anything respond so fast like that and with such vigor!! And, believe me, he had his doubts in the beginning and now he is in "AWE".

This is a picture of my lemon tree that got the Sea-Crop.
This picture was taken on March 24, 2008.


This is a picture of my neighbor's lemon tree that did not get the Sea-Crop.
It is directly across the fence from my tree and was planted at the same time.
This picture was taken on March 24, 2008.
Following is a comparison between the two trees above. My neighbor's tree in the picture on the left is about 25 feet away from the ORMUS tree on the right.


The picture of my neighbors tree on the left was taken on April 8, 2008.
The picture of my lemon tree on the right was taken on March 24, 2008
Both trees were planted at the same time, a few years ago, and looked pretty much the same till I put the Sea-Crop on my tree.
I also took some pictures of the leaves from these two trees. In the picture below, the leaf on the far left was one of the smallest leaves I could find on my neighbor's tree. The next leaf to it was one of the smallest leaves I could find on my lemon tree. The third leaf was one of the largest leaves that I could find on my neighbor's lemon tree and the leaf on the far right was one of the largest leaves I could find on my lemon tree:



I sent these leaves to Barry and he took the following picture. Note that in his picture the order of the leaves is changed. The two leaves from my neighbor's tree are on the left and the two leaves from my tree on the right.


Though the leaves in the second picture are a bit desiccated, Barry weighed them for me and he found that the large leaf from my tree weighed three times as much as the large leaf from my neighbor's tree.

The smaller leaves on both trees survived the winter. The smaller leaves on my tree probably finished growing before I applied the Sea-Crop last October.

I also took some pictures of some leaves still on the branches of my lemon tree:

As you can see in the picture above, the older (more ragged) leaves on the left are much smaller than the newer leaves on the right.


You can also see this in the picture above with an older inner branch on the left and the more recent growth on the right.
Next is a picture of my tangerine tree. I don't have any before pictures of this tree or a neighbor's tree for comparison.